Market cut · France

Leading Auto Manufacturers & Parts Brands in AI Search in France

The Auto Manufacturers & Parts index re-ranked using only prompts and answers from France.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Lexus leads AI search visibility in Auto Manufacturers & Parts in France with a Goodie visibility score of 74.2, ahead of Michelin (73.6) and Toyota (72.6). The median score across the 19 ranked brands is 34.9, and a score above 34.9 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 7.3% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 1.3%.

33k prompts · 2.4m AI answers · 11.6m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Auto Manufacturers & Parts · France
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
34.9
Half of the 19 ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 68.2
Score to enter the top 10
34.9
Clearing 34.9 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 0.0 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
11.0
A typical answer names eleven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.9
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 4%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 6%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 84%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding auto manufacturers & parts answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
1.3%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
62/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
33k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.4m
214k in October · ▼ 16.1% vs September
Citations parsed
11.6m
1m in October · ▲ 14.0% vs September
Brands observed
260
19 ranked here · 241 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Auto Manufacturers & Parts, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Lexus
74.2
10.2%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 0.673iseecars.com
02Michelin
73.6
10.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 2.871tireagent.com
03Toyota
72.6
10.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 3.766kbb.com
04Goodyear
71.9
9.9%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 2.767tireagent.com
05Mazda
54.9
7.6%AI ModeChatGPTCopilot▲ 1.076consumerreports.org
06BYD
54.5
7.5%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 4.470counterpointresearch.com
07Genesis
54.3
7.5%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.263consumerreports.org
08Tesla
36.9
5.1%AI ModePerplexity▼ 3.860youtube.com
09Mercedes-Benz
36.3
5.0%AI ModePerplexity▲ 0.551youtube.com
10Volvo
34.9
4.8%AI ModeCopilot▼ 4.571consumerreports.org
19 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Auto Manufacturers & Parts
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01youtube.com
7.3%
▲ 17.7
02usatoday.com
5.8%
—
03centralepneus.fr
5.8%
—
04auto-doc.fr
5.0%
—
05gmauthority.com
4.5%
—
06autoscout24.fr
4.2%
—
07numerama.com
4.2%
—
08autohero.com
4.0%
▼ 0.2
09automobile-magazine.fr
3.8%
—
10alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu
3.6%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Auto Manufacturers & Parts, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Electric vehicle brands gaining market share83168
02Auto brands with strong resale value42165
03Luxury car brands with strong reliability32118
04Which car brands rank highest for safety?46114
05Quelles voitures électriques se vendent vraiment plus en ce moment ?1326
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Michelinscore 73.6
▲ 2.8
Acurascore 17.4
▲ 1.4
Genesisscore 54.3
▲ 1.2
Falling
Volvoscore 34.9
▼ 4.5
BYDscore 54.5
▼ 4.4
Teslascore 36.9
▼ 3.8
14 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±2.2/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
7,368,090 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Auto Manufacturers & Parts, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States4.4M
02Canada1.4M
03United Kingdom499K
04Australia304K
05Egypt198K
06Germany156K
07Italy104K
08Japan76K
09France68K
10United Arab Emirates54K
11Saudi Arabia47K
12Singapore24K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Lexus leads Auto Manufacturers & Parts this edition with a visibility score of 74.2, ahead of Michelin at 73.6.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding auto manufacturers & parts answers, at roughly 7.3% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 1.3% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands is 34.9, and a score above 34.9 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Auto Manufacturers & Parts

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the Answers.

Lexus currently leads AI search visibility in auto manufacturers & parts with a Goodie visibility score of 74.2, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in auto manufacturers & parts AI answers, grounding roughly 7.3% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked auto manufacturers & parts brands is 34.9. A score above 34.9 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.